My photographic adventures on the other side of the world

January 28, 2018

Mountains, Music and Mercury

Are just some of the things that Montreux are famous for. We have to travel back in time for this post, to just before our trip to Lausanne and concurrent with the visit to Chillon. Normally I prefer to blog my experiences in chronological order, because I feel that by following the storyline closely I can weave the chapters together more fluidly. This time I needed to make an exception however, as I committed a considerable number of my photos to film and had to wait for them to be processed. This won’t be the case for much longer, but that is a topic for another post.
Back to Montreux. Like Lausanne, Montreux is situated on the shore of Lake Geneva and is just a short 20 minute train ride away from the larger town. It is probably most well known for the Montreux Jazz Festival, the world’s second largest annual jazz festival, that overruns the town for about two weeks in Summer. Additionally, Freddie Mercury settled and Queen recorded a total of seven albums here. These events are commemorated with a three metre tall statue of Freddie at the waterfront and a tribute wall and Queen experience at the casino. Being me however, I focused primarily on the other M, the mountains of the Rhone Alps on the opposite side of Lake Geneva. For this first post I wanted to focus a little more on the street photography that we captured on the first day. Don’t worry, there will be plenty more photos of the mountains to come, including a comparison of some different monochrome film stocks.
Thank you once again to Kathrin for allowing me to use some of her photos!